FIT_U_3.2

 Paper DSC 103: FUNDAMENTALS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
UNIT-I: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS: Introduction, Definition,Characteristics of computer,Evolution of Computer,Block Diagram Of a computer,Generations of Computer, Classification Of Computers,Applications of Capabilities and limitations of computer. Computer,Role of I/O devices in a computer system.Input Units:Keyboard, Terminals and its types. Pointing Devices, Scanners and its types, Voice Recognition Systems, Vision Input System,Touch Screen,Output Units: Monitors and its types.Printers: Impact Printers and its types.Non-Impact Printers and its types, Plotters, types of plotters, Sound cards,Speakers.
UNIT -II: COMPUTER ARITHMETIC & STORAGE FUNDAMENTALS Binary, Binary Arithmetic, Number System: Positional & Non Positional,Binary,Octal, Decimal,Hexadecimal, Converting from one number system to another.Primary VsSecondary Storage,Data storage & retrieval methods.Primary Storage: RAM ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM. Secondary Storage: Magnetic Tapes,Magnetic Disks. Cartridge tape,hard disks,Floppy disks Optical Disks,Compact Disks,Zip Drive, Flash Drives.
UNIT-III: SOFTWARE: Software and its needs, Types of S/W.System Software: Operating System, Utility Programming Language: Machine Language,Assembly Language, High Level advantages & disadvantages. Application S/W and its types: Word Processing, Spread Sheets Language their Programs Presentation,Graphics,DBMS s/w.
UNIT-IV:OPERATING SYSTEM: Functions,Measuring System Performance,Assemblers,Compilers and Interpreters.Batch Processing, Multiprogramming,Multi Tasking,Multiprocessing,Time Sharing, DOS,Windows, Unix/Linux.
UNIT-V: DATA COMMUNICATION:Data, Communication, Basic Networking Devices, Communication Process, Data Transmissionspeed, Communication Types(modes),Data Transmission Medias,Modem and its working,characteristics,Typesof Networks,LAN Topologies, Computer Protocols, Concepts relating to networking

FIT Important Questions


Parts of a MS-WORD window

MS-WORD is a word processor. An MS-Word window has the following parts:


                                                                        --O--

Opening and Closing of documents in MS-Word

Q7)Explain How to create ,save  close and Open a Word Document?

Ans:

Creating Documents

An MS-Word document can be created by using the following procedure:

1. Select and Click on Word 2007/10

2. File -->New --> Select Blank document

->It opens a new document for you to enter your content.  (Or)

3.You can also create a new document by pressing CTRL + N keys.

Entering Data in the Document

1.When a document is created a cursor blinks .Data can be entered in that place.

2.Enter text by typing data using keyboard.

Saving Documents

After creating a document, you can save it.

To save a new document:

1. Click on the File tab(In Some Versions Office Button)

2. Then, click on Save /Save As

It opens the Save As page window.

3. Select a location to save the file.

4. Type a File name.

5. Click the Save button.

6. NOTE:

Word 2007/10’s file format is called Word Document. This format has the .docx file extension.

You can also save a document in the Word 97-2003 format with the .doc file. This format works with earlier versions of Word.

Opening Documents

You can locate and open an existing document.

To open a document:

1. Click the File tab

2. Then click Open. Or, press Ctrl+O.

It opens a list of recently used documents.

3. Locate your document and then click the Open button.

Closing Documents

You can close a document after finishing working on it.

To close a document:

1. Click the File tab

2. Then click Close.

    Or, press Ctrl+W.

Spread Sheets

Q8) What Spread Sheets? Explain features of spread sheets?(VIMP)

Ans: Excel is a spreadsheet program in the Microsoft Office system. You can use Excel to create and format workbooks (a collection of spreadsheets) in order to analyze data and make more informed business decisions. Specifically, you can use Excel to track data, build models for analyzing data, write formulas to perform calculations on that data, pivot the data in numerous ways, and present data in a variety of professional looking charts.

Features of MS EXCEL:

In the Microsoft office package, all the applications have their own dedicated features, these features help the user to work with the applications smoothly and they also resemble the importance of the application.

1. Workbook (Worksheets): Excel provides a workbook which contains worksheets. These worksheets contain cells (combination of rows and columns) where the user can enter the data in an order of row wise or column wise. These worksheets make the data look more uniform and attractive. User can create add desired number of worksheets in desired number of workbooks as per the requirement.

2. Normal and Page break view: We are provided with two types of views in excel, normal view is used to view the worksheet in a normal way, simply it means the worksheet will appear with a default zoom level and default cell sizes. Page break view will provide an opportunity to set the page breaks as desired by the user.

3. Chart Wizard: Chart wizard feature enables the user to insert a chart on the worksheet. With this feature we can create a chart on our own as per the data in the worksheet.

4. Function: This feature provides us with predefined formulas that perform calculations by using specific values, called arguments, in a particular order, or structure. They can be used to perform simple or complex calculations.

5. Picture: This feature enables the user to insert pictures from clipart, from file and from scanner or camera onto the worksheet. With this feature we can also insert AutoShapes, WordArt and Organization Chart.

6. Diagram: This diagram feature is used to create an Organization chart, Cycle diagram, Radical diagram, Pyramid diagram, Target diagram, Venn diagram. This feature will help to make the worksheet more attractable and the details in the diagrams more understandable.

7. Symbol: This will help the user to insert symbol like custom numbers, Wingdings, etc., and also insert special characters on the sheet.

8. Comments: By using this feature the user can add comments to a cell in the worksheet and the user can also see the name of a person who had given the comment.

9. Spelling: Spelling is one among the special feature provided by ms excel for checking the spellings entered by the user if there are any mistakes. This feature is sophisticated with an internal dictionary which helps in modifying the spellings like synonyms etc.,

10. Formula auditing: MS Excel provides this feature to correct any problem with the formulas provided. This feature also helps to graphically display or trace the relationships cells and formulas with blue arrows.


Parts of the MS-Excel 2010

Q9)Explain Various Parts of Excel work book?

Ans:

ACTIVE CELL : When you click on a cell in Excel, the active cell is identified by its black outline. You enter data into the active cell.

FILE TAB: The File tab options are mostly related to file management such as opening new or existing worksheet files, saving, printing, and a new feature saving and sending Excel files in PDF format.

FORMULA BAR: It can be used for entering or editing data and formulas.

NAME BOX: Name Box displays the cell reference or the name of the active cell.

COLUMN LETTERS : Columns run vertically on a worksheet, and each one is identified by a letter in the column heading.

ROW NUMBERS : Rows run horizontally in a worksheet and are identified by a number in the row heading.

CELL: Cells are the rectangular boxes located in central area of a worksheet. Data entered into a worksheet is stored in a cell. Each cell can hold only one piece of data at a time. A cell is the intersection point of a vertical column and a horizontal row. Each cell in the worksheet can be identified by a cell reference, this is combination of letters and numbers such as A1, F456, or AA34.

SHEET TABS: By default, there are three worksheets in an Excel file, although there can be more. The tab at the bottom of a worksheet tells you the name of the worksheet, such as Sheet1 or Sheet2.

ADD SHEET ICON: Adding additional worksheets can be done by clicking on the add sheet icon next to the sheet tab

QUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR: This toolbar can be customized to hold frequently used commands.

STATUS BAR: The status bar, give the user information about the current worksheet, data the worksheet contains, and even the user's keyboard - such as whether the Caps Lock, Scroll Lock, and Num Lock keys are turned on or off.

ZOOM SLIDER: Located in the bottom right corner of the Excel screen, the zoom slider is used to change the magnification of a worksheet by dragging the slider box back and forth or by clicking on the Zoom Out and Zoom In buttons located at either end of the slider.

RIBBON: The ribbon holds all of the information in previous versions of Microsoft Office in a more visual stream line manner through a series of tabs that include an immense variety of program features.

Ribbon contains commands organized in three components:

Tabs: These appear across the top of the Ribbon and contain groups of related commands.

Home, Insert, Page Layout are examples of ribbon tabs.

Groups: They organize related commands; each group name appears below the group on the Ribbon. For example, group of commands related to fonts or group of commands related to alignment, etc.

Commands: Commands appear within each group as mentioned above.                                    

Q10)Explain How to create ,save  close and Open a workbook?

Ans:

Creating a Workbook

You can start Excel 2013 from the Start menu.

To start Excel 2013 from the Start menu:

1.Click the File tab à New

•It shows different templates.

2.In the right pane, click Blank Workbook. It opens a new, blank workbook.

3.You can also use Ctrl + N to open a new workbook.

Saving a Workbook

1.Click the File tab -->click Save As.

•It displays a Save As window

2.Click Computer-> Browse

3.Select a location to save the file, type a name in the File name box, and then click the Save button.

Note: Excel 2013’s file format is called Excel Workbook. This format has the file extension .xlsx

Closing a Workbook

After finishing working on a workbook, you can close it.

To close a workbook without exiting Excel:

1.Click the File tab, and then click Close.

2.Or, press Ctrl+W.

Opening a Workbook

To open a workbook:

1.Click the File tab

2.Then click Open. Or, press Ctrl+O.

•It opens a list of recently used workbooks.

3.Locate your workbook and then click the Open button.

Q11)Explain  how to insert data ,numbers ,insert work sheets in excel?

Ans:

Entering Data

You can enter the data directly in a cell or by using the Formula bar. A cell can contain a maximum of 32,767 characters.

Entering Numbers

Numbers are automatically aligned to the right in a  cell. Numbers can be used in formulas to calculate

other values.

You can enter:

 Whole numbers (such as 5 or 1,000)

 Decimals (such as 0.25 or 5.15)

Negative numbers (such as -10 or - 5.5)

Percentages (such as 20% or 1.5%)

Currency values (such as $0.25 or $20.99).

To enter a number:

1.Select the cell in which you want to enter the number.

2.Type the desired number, and then press the Enter key.

To edit data:

1.Double-click the cell that contains the data you want to edit.

2.Click where you want to make changes, and then type the new characters.

3.To delete characters, click where you want to delete and then press the Backspace or Delete key.

4.When you are finished, press the Enter key.

Printing a worksheet:

1.Select the worksheet that you want to print.

2.Click the File tab --> click Print. Or, press Ctrl+P.

•Make the required changes in the print settings

3.To print multiple copies, specify the number of copies you want.

4.Click the Print button.

Inserting a Worksheet:

1.Click the tab of the worksheet to insert a new worksheet.

2.Click on Home tab-> click on Insert and then ->click on Insert Sheet

3.Or Click the New sheet button located on the right side of the tabs.

This inserts a new worksheet.

                                                                        --O--

Charts (Graph):

Q12)What is Chart? Explain chart types and Explain how to insert Chart in Excel?(VIMP)

Ans: A chart is an integral feature of Excel. It is also known as a graph. Charts/graphs are used to visually represent numeric values. It is very much useful to analyze the data.

 MS-Excel 2013 supports different types of charts. They are:

Column chart: A column chart is used to see the comparisons among different items.

Bar chart: A bar chart is used to show comparisons among individual data items.

Pie chart: A pie chart is used to display information about only one data series.

Line chart: A line chart is drawn to understand the trends in data at regular intervals.

Area chart: An area chart is used to visualize the magnitude of change in data over time.

 X-Y Scatter chart: An x-y (scatter) chart displays the relationships among numbers in several data series.

 Stock chart: A stock chart is often used to show stock price data.

Radar: A radar chart is used to compare the aggregate values of a number of data series.

For example, The following are the steps to create a column chart:

Step 1: Select the data for which you want to create chart.

Step 2: Click on the Insert tab.

Step 3: Click on Charts groups and click on the desired type of chart.

Step 4: Click on OK to generate the chart.

Q13)Explain Inserting table in Excel?(VIMP)

Ans:

Inserting a Table

Although it is possible to create an empty table, it is easier to enter the data first before formatting it as a table. When entering the data, don't leave blank rows, columns, or cells in the block of data that will form the table. To create a table:

1. Click any single cell inside the block of data.

2. Click on the Insert tab of the ribbon.

3. Click on the Table icon located in the Tables group. Excel selects the entire block of contiguous data and opens the Create Table dialog box.

4. If your data has a heading row, check the My table has headers option in the dialog box.

5. Click OK to create the table.

 

Basics of presentation software

Q14)Explain about Presentation software or  power point software?(VIMP)

Ans:

What is PowerPoint ?

Microsoft power point is presentation software. It helps in creating attractive and effective slide show presentations. Each presentation can have as many slides as user wants. Each slide can carry text, graphics & sound. The slides can be animated to make them more attractive.

 Features of power point:

1) Readymade slides:

Since power point is having powerful wizards, we can prepare the slides easily and quickly. The auto content wizard option provides wizards to make slides easily. Template provides a wide range of ready made designs to us.

2) Background colors and effects:

We can have a wide variety of background colors for slides in power point. In addition to colors, we can also get different textures and shades in slides. We can also change the colors of existing wizards and templates.

3) Pictures:

Not only captions and different colors, we can add good pictures either from clip art or from scanning the pictures.

4) Sounds:

Different sounds can be created while presenting the various slides. The sounds will have a pleasing effect on the viewers.

5) Animation:

Different animation techniques are also available in the slides. The letters and pictures will fly from top to bottom and left to right. Not only one technique, we can have many animation options. We can also get preview of various animation effects.

6) Charts and Tables:

We can insert different charts and tables for expressing the data and information to the users. The different charts and tables in the MS Excel can be easily imported into MS Power point.

7) Time for slides:

We can prescribe the time automatically or manually for running and exhibiting slides. For example we can set the time for 5 or 6 seconds for each slide to exhibit on the computer.

8) Speaker Notes:

Speaker notes are the notes that can be included in the bottom of the slide so that new ideas can be discussed during presentation.

9) Other features:

MS Power point includes many other features like macros changing the colors of slides, fonts. We can also change the slide numbers from any direction using slide sorter view.

 Advantages of power point:

There are many advantages of computerized presentations.

1) The slides can be prepared for different types of audience like literates, illiterates, children, old people etc.

2) They can be run automatically. There is no manual interference for running power point show.

3) There is no problem of getting slides out of order.

4) We can even take printouts of presentations and can be distributed to the audience.

5) The audience will easily be attracted by the colorful slides with sound and animation techniques.

6) The built in design templates allow the people to create colorful slides very easily.

7) If we want to change a part of presentation, we need not change all slides. We can change all slides by changing master slide.

Components of Power Point presentation          

The Office Logo Button at the top left corner contains many task buttons for the document such as, New, Open, Save, Save As, Print and Close. This button also has a list of the recent documents.

The Quick Access Toolbar is to the right of the Office Logo button. It contains shortcuts for the commonly used tools, like, Save , Undo (reverses the last change), and Repeat (repeats the last action). The buttons that the user wishes to be displayed can be selected from the Customize Quick Access Toolbar.

Ribbon: It contains a set of tabs and commands.

Notes Pane: It is used by the presenter to makes the notes that are to be used while presenting.

Outline/Slides Tab: It contains two views—outline view and slide view.

The outline view shows the text of the slides in a larger format than the Normal view.

The slide view displays the slides as thumbnails, where user can view all the slides in the presentation, rearrange them and hide the slides, as per requirements.

Slide Pane: This is the work area where most of the editing is done. It shows the slide selected in the Outline/Slides tab as it will appear in the presentation.

Status Bar: It displays information about the currently active presentation. The information includes the current slide number, Theme, zoom slider etc.

Right-click on the status bar will show the Customize Status Bar pop-up menu. The appropriate option can be selected on the status bar.

Scroll Bar: The vertical scroll bar helps to scroll the slides of the presentation. Scrolling is done by moving the elevator button along the scroll bar, or by clicking on the buttons with the arrow marked on them to move up and down the slides.

Powerpoint contains the following menus/tabs:

File(Office Button): It contains the file management commands.

Home: It contains the most frequently used commands.

Insert: It contains the commands to insert other objects into a presentation

Design: It contains the commands to change the appearance of a presentation

Animations: It contains commands to apply animation.

Slide Show: It contains commands to present a slide show

Review: It contains commands to review a presentation

View: It contains commands to change the view

Creating Presentation

Q15) Explain Creating Presentation , Saving Presentation?

Ans: Click Start Menu-->All Programs-->Microsoft Office-->Open MS Power Point

Click the FILE(Office Button) and select New.

It displays a New presentation window.

2. Click the Blank Presentation option.

3.Click on Create Button

It creates a new blank presentation.

OR

Press Ctrl + N to create a Blank Presentation

Editing a Slide

Most presentations require some editing.

To edit text:

1. Select the Slide

2. Click where you want to edit.

3. Do any of the following:

• Type any additional text.

• Press the Delete key/Backspace to remove text.

Delete a slide

1. Select the slide you want to delete.

2. Press <Delete>.

The slide is deleted.

Other Ways to Delete a Slide:

3. Right-click on the slide you want to delete and select Delete Slide.

Saving a Presentation

1. Click--> File tab(office button) and Click-->Save

It displays a Save As dialog box.

2. Specify the drive and/or folder where you want to save your presentation.

3. Enter the file name in the File name text box.

4. Click Save.

                        https://degreecsa.blogspot.com


No comments:

Post a Comment